Scribd
Upload
239 views7 pages

PipeWire - Alpine Linux

Install PipeWire on Alpine Linux

Uploaded by

Bengt Frost
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF or read online on Scribd
239 views7 pages

PipeWire - Alpine Linux

Install PipeWire on Alpine Linux

Uploaded by

Bengt Frost
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 7
Alpine Linux PipeWire / 2 This material is work-in-progress ... ‘The instructions below have not been thoroughily tested and may break things. (Last edited by Sertonix on 4 Nov 2023.) PipeWire (https://pipewire.org/) is a multimedia processing engine that aims to improve audio and video handling on Linux. Prerequisites Device access PipeWire needs proper permissions to access devices. If you do not use elogind, your user should be in audio (to access audio devices) and video (to access webcam devices) groups: # addgroup audio # addgroup video ‘Warning: Membership of the video group will also grant unrestricted access to video devices, which is often a security issue. See issue #15409 (https://gitlab.alpinelii org/alpine/aports/-/issues/15409) for further details. See pre-systemd groups (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_and_groups#Pre-systemd_groups) for more info. Make sure to re-login for these changes to take effect. D-Bus PipeWire optionally requires a running D-Bus system and/or session bus for some of its functionality. For certain configurations (e.g. only audio playback and recording) D-Bus setup is not necessary. Edit configuration files to disable D-Bus support. If you start session-wide dbus instance, make sure to start PipeWire in that same session. Environment Ensure that XDG_RUNTIME. DIR is configured correcily. If this is not set, pipewire will create a directory in your home folder instead, called ~/pulse, and on attempting to run Pavucontrol or pactl, you will get the following error: $ pactt List Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused Under Sway, in order for xdg-desktop-portal-wlr to work it may also be necessary 10 set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP and XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP to sway Installation Install the pipewire (https: //pkgs .alpineLinux.org/packages?name=pipewireébranch=edgeSrepo-Garch =x86_646ma intainer=) package. # apk add pipewire Session Manager PipeWire delegates plumbing work to session manager. There is only one option: WirePlumber (hitps://gitlab.freed esktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber). It has modular design and supports Lua plugins. This is the default pipewire session manager. # apk add wireplumber PulseAudio compatibility Install pipewire-pulse (https: //pkgs .alpineLinux.org/packages?nam epo=arch=x86_646maintainer=) package, which provides a daemon so PulseAudio applications could use PipeWire as backend. JACK compatibility Install pipewire-jack (https://pkgs.alpinelinux. org/packages?name=pipewire-jack&branch=edge6rep o=Garch=x86_64Gmaintainer=) package, which provides ABI-compatible libraries for JACK applications. ALSA support Install pipewire-alsa (https: //pkgs.alpinelinux. org/packages?name=pipewire-alsaSbranch-edgeérep 0=Garch=x86_646maintainer=) package. Configuration PipeWire and WirePlumber store their default configuration in /usr/share/pipewire and /usr/share/wireplumber respectively. If you want to edit the configuration, you need to move it to /etc: # cp -a /usr/share/pipewire /etc # cp -a /usr/share/wireplumber /etc Disable D-Bus support Edit the following configuration parameters: Contents of /etc/pipewire/pipewire. conf context properties = { pport.dbus = false Contents of /etc/wireplumber/wireplumber. conf context.properties = { Support.dbus = false Contents of /etc/wireplumber/bluetooth. lua. d/S0-bluez-config. lua bluez_monitor.properties = { ('with-logind"] = false, Contents of /etc/wireplumber/main.lua.d/50-alsa-config. lua alsa_monitor.properties - { alsa.reserve"] = false, Contents of /etc/wireplumber/main.lua.d/50-default-access-config.lua default_access. properties = { (*enable-flatpak-portal"] = false, Realtime scheduling For realtime scheduling, it is recommended to use rtkit (https: //pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=rt . Add your user to the rtkit group. Alternatively, ensure your user has the right ulimit permissions. Since pipewire 0.3.66, you can add yourself to the pipewire group. You generally need (e.g. in /etc/security/Limits. conf): Apipowire - momlock 4191304 Apipewire - nice ~19 Apipewire — rtprio 95 This allows a member of the pipewire group to have the right permissions for PipeWire to use realtime scheduling without rikit. This same snippet comes with pipewire since 0.3.66, so if you have a PAM login session and add yourself to the pipewire group, you don't have to do anything else. Note that the above limits.conf will only work if your session is using PAM. Video Video should work out-of-the-box with val2 devices (e.g. a lot of webcams) and GStreamer (hups://gstreamer.freedes ‘ktop.org/) applications. Bluetooth aur » Enable PulseAudio support as described above * Install bluetooth service packages: bluez bluez-openrc pipewire-spa-bluez * Optional: install GUI manager for bluetooth bLueman « Enable and start bluetooth service: rc-update add bluetooth; rc-service bluetooth start «= Restart PipeWire + Use commandline program bluetoothct1 or GUI program blueman-manager to scan and pair bluetooth audio devices. » Use pavucontrol to adjust volume and manually select high definition bluetooth codecs. Screen sharing on Wayland You will need the right xdg-desktop-portal_(https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal) backend for your desktop environment. Screen sharing is known to work * GNOME with xdg-desktop-portal-gtk «KDE Plasma with xdg-desktop-portal-kde and Firefox * Sway with xdg-desktop-portal-wLr and Firefox, see Sway for details Running Tip: You can also use uperd to manage pipewire and its related services. Note: pipewire-Launcher script is provided by Alpine Linux, not by upstream. Please report issues to Alpine Linux maintainers first. Start the PipeWire media server. You'll probably get quite a few errors but just ignore them for now. $ /usr/Libexec/pipewire-launcher AD-Bus session service must be running unless dbus support is disabled. Auto launching You can add /usr/Libexec/pipewire-Launcher to your ~/.xinitre If you do not use GUI by default and have D-Bus enabled in configuration, add the following stanza to your shell configuration file: export $(dbus-Launch) /usr/libexec/pipewire-launcher Testing Ina different terminal window check the default output device. I don't yet know how this default can be changed for all applications, so you'd better hope it's right! WirePlumber $ wpctl status pw-cat playback Test sound is working using an audio file in a format supported by libsndfile (hup://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/) (c.g. flac, opus, ogg, wav). Use pw-Cat utility from pipewire-tools (https: //pkgs.alpinel inux.org/pac kages?name=pipewire-toolsSbranch=edgeSrepo=6arch=x86_646maintainer=): $ pu-cat -p test. flac $ pw-play /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav pw-cat recording If you have a microphone test audio recording is working. $ pu-cat -r —-list-targets $ pu-cat -r recording. flac (Speak for a while then stop it with Ctrl+c) $ pu-cat -p recording. flac PulseAudio Test PulseAudio clients using a media player, as most use PulseAudio. JACK Use jack_simple_client from jack-simple-clients (https: //pkgs.alpineLinux.org/packages?nam e=jack-simple-clients&branch=edgeGrepo-Garch-x86_646maintaine: $ jack_simple_client You should hear a sustained beep. Troubleshooting ‘wpetl status’ shows no targets First, check whether ALSA knows about your sound card: aplay -1 If sound devices are found, the issue is with your pipewire configuration. Consider double-checking the instructions above. Otherwise, your sound card may not be supported in the version of the Linux Kernel you're running. You should search online for fixes relating to your current kernel version and the codec of your sound card. You can find each of these with: uname -r cat /proc/asound/card0/codecx Error acquiring bus address: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 $DISPLAY ‘This means D-Bus session bus is not started and GUI is not active (ie. you are in a tty). Use dbus-run-session as outlined above. Altematively, disable D-Bus support. Bluetooth connect failed: br-connection-profile-unavailable Ensure that a Session Manager is running. Play/Pause buttons not working on bluetooth headphones Check /var/log/messages. If you see something like this: bluetoothd[ 3463]: profiles /audio/avctp.c:uinput_create() Can't open input device: No such file or directory (2) bluetoothd[ 3463]: profiles/audio/avetp.c:init_uinput() AVRCP: failed to init winput for wH-1000%xK5. Then bluez is trying to register the headphones buttons as an input devices, but uinput is not loaded. Try modprobe uinput. If this works, see Architecture¥Module_Loading for instructions on how to make sure this module is loaded automatically on each startup. Quick Configuration You might want to use pavucontrol (https: //pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages ?name=pavucontrolébranch =edgeSrepo=6arch=x86_645maintainer=) or pavucontrol-qt (https: //pkgs .alpinelinux .org/package s?name=pavucontrol-qt6branch=edgeGrepo-Garch=x86_64émaintainer=) to have a simple GUI app for controlling sound, outputs, etc. PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface qpwgraph (https: //pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=qpwgraph&branch=edgebrepo=6arch=x86_645 naintainer=) isa graph manager dedicated to PipeWire. See Also = PipeWire source repository (https:/gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire) = PipeWire Wiki (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewirel-/wikisIhome) » PipeWire on the ArchWiki (https://wikiarchlinux.orgindex.php/PipeWire) + PipeWire on the Gentoo Wiki (https://wiki,gentoo.org/wiki/Pipewire) Retrieved from “https:/wiki.alpinelinux.orgiwindex. php tite=PipeWirezoldid=25432"

You might also like